Are you sure, that you activated all the dynticks hires-timers stuff? You still have a lot of wakeups and they seem to be timer related. Why your processors stay outside C3 while idle (12% C0 to C2)???
Although I have another laptop, the technical base ist similar. So less than 100 wakeups should be possible.

Wow. ext4 is fast. I compiled several heavy programs like xorg-server on a partition with these mount options:
/dev/hda4 on /var/tmp/portage type ext4dev (rw,noatime,delalloc,mballoc,data=writeback,nobh)

It was stable too. Someone said that mballoc wasn't stable, but it worked perfectly for me. I am using version 1.40.2 of e2fsprogs as well. I haven't noticed anything odd with them yet. Maybe this will give you hope and allows some people to update from 1.39 since a lot of changes went into 1.40.x.

So far so good. I have two experimental filesystems on my computer now. BTRFS and ext4. Whooo! Way to go me. I bet my hard drive hates me right about now.

I would like to use just some of your patches but not others. I have downloaded the broken out patchset, but I have trouble applying the powertop patches. Each hunk fails. Is there anywhere I can find out which order they need to be applied, or which patch depends on which others to work?

Sounds good! Maybe I'll give it another try, (but this time not on / )

I just googled for BTRFS info- here's 2 links for those interested in the basics. Thanks StifflerStealth for cluing me in about this new FS- I'm always interested in stuff like this. How's BTRFS working out so far, and what partition do you have it on?

Sounds good! Maybe I'll give it another try, (but this time not on / )

I just googled for BTRFS info- here's 2 links for those interested in the basics. Thanks StifflerStealth for cluing me in about this new FS- I'm always interested in stuff like this. How's BTRFS working out so far, and what partition do you have it on?

Sounds good! Maybe I'll give it another try, (but this time not on / )

I just googled for BTRFS info- here's 2 links for those interested in the basics. Thanks StifflerStealth for cluing me in about this new FS- I'm always interested in stuff like this. How's BTRFS working out so far, and what partition do you have it on?

Page 4 has a post by me with the fixed live ebuilds. The version 0.8 and love ebuilds posted before that have a slight bug in them. I mention what it is in a post right before I post the live ebuilds. The live ebuilds are stable. A lot of bug fixes are in them.

Other than that, BTRFS is very nice. It's stable and it does handle /var/tmp/portage very well. I don't know which is better at it: ext4 or btrfs. I have BTRFS partition holding both /var/tmp/ccache and the repos. I have one partition" /dev/hda6 formatted BTRFS and that is broken into subvolumes. That feature is sweet. I can make a new partition without formatting the harddrive. A lot is explained the 4 pages of that thread. I don't think I will move repos off of btrfs, because it handles small files beautifully. Repos on ext3 was slow in comparison. btrfs really has it nailed when it comes to small files and the gentoo repo is thousands of small files, so you really need something that can handle that.

The developer is always looking for extra support, so if you find bugs, report them or if you know how to fix, he loves patches and gives credit.

I would like to use just some of your patches but not others. I have downloaded the broken out patchset, but I have trouble applying the powertop patches. Each hunk fails. Is there anywhere I can find out which order they need to be applied, or which patch depends on which others to work?

Yeah, but where else could we all talk? How about waninkoko creates an official IRC channel for kamikaze, like #kamikaze-sources on freenode, and then we could talk there?

Well in the meantime, I wouldn't mind if you'd use #berkano on freenode for that. It's not like it's a very busy channel anyway... _________________"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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